potenciômetro

Portuguese

Um potenciômetro.

Alternative forms

• potenciómetro (Portugal)

Etymology

From potência +‎ -o- +‎ -metro.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /po.tẽ.siˈõ.me.tɾu/ [po.tẽ.sɪˈõ.me.tɾu], (faster pronunciation) /po.tẽˈsjõ.me.tɾu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /po.tẽ.siˈõ.me.tɾu/ [po.tẽ.sɪˈõ.me.tɾu], (faster pronunciation) /po.tẽˈsjõ.me.tɾu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /po.tẽ.siˈo.me.tɾo/ [po.tẽ.sɪˈo.me.tɾo], (faster pronunciation) /po.tẽˈsjo.me.tɾo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pu.tẽˈsjo.mɨ.tɾu/

• Rhymes: -õmetɾu
• Hyphenation: po‧ten‧ci‧ô‧me‧tro

Noun

potenciômetro m (plural potenciômetros) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)

1. (electronics) potentiometer, a user-adjustable three-terminal variable resistor that can be used as a voltage divider.

Further reading

• “potenciômetro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024